Tag: thin film

  • Paper online (Extreme Mechanics Letters) on wrinkling in defected metal thin films

    Paper online (Extreme Mechanics Letters) on wrinkling in defected metal thin films

    Flores-Johnson, E. A., Rupert, T. J., Hemker, K. J., Gianola, D. S., & Gan, Y. (2015). Modelling wrinkling interactions produced by patterned defects in metal thin films. Extreme Mechanics Letters. In press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2015.07.002 Abstract Wrinkling patterns in freestanding metal thin films under tensile loading are investigated through finite-element simulations with experimental validation. Numerical simulations of…